US-Led Coalition Air Strike 'Kills 25 In Syria, Including Civilians'

Picture: Syrian government air strikes target besieged Eastern Ghouta. (Credit: PA)

At least 25 people, including woman and children, have been killed by a US-backed coalition air strike against Islamic State, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The strike was targetting one of the militant group's last remaining enclaves on the eastern banks of the Euphrates in the country's al-Shaafa region. 

Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said;

“Twenty-five civilians, including seven children and six women were killed in the past few hours ... In the area of Dahrat Allouni in the east of Al-Shafa area."

In reaction to the report, coalition spokesman, Colonel Ryan Dillon said:

“We take all allegations seriously and as we always do we will put it into our civilian casualty assessment and we will publish the results of those on a monthly basis.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reports 10 people were killed as air strikes and bombing of rebel-held suburbs east of Damascus resumed.

Syrian state TV broadcast live footage showing the Harasta suburb being pounded by air strikes and artillery.

The Syrian monitoring group and the opposition's Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, said nine people died in an air strike shortly after midnight on the suburb of Douma and one person was killed in Harasta on Monday morning.

The new deaths bring to 24 the two-day death toll in eastern Ghouta, on the edge of Damascus, despite the UN Security Council's unanimous approval on Saturday of a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire across Syria. Fourteen people were killed on Sunday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it is "high time to stop this hell on Earth".